Don't You Feel Ashamed Of What You've Done?

the important thing to understand about odo is that he has the most homoerotic rivalry with quark but she's also a transfem lesbian but they're also aroace. he's got a lot and nothing going on.

Some Julian Bashir practice for ya'll! I'm working on a little ds9 fancomic and I forgot how cute he was

always abide by the golden rule of fandom. talk shit in private and ignore things you dont like in public.

sorry but nothing makes me happier than seeing posts from just last week, just yesterday, just a few hours ago from people becoming sooo sick over elim garak and julian bashir

it is so fucking beautiful to witness the present tense of people discovering these two. watching garashir’s legacy continue to bloom into present day over and over again u kno ????

superposition of legendary fandom history and active thriving ship. send post.

drama on DS9 after Martok publicly slaps Bashir's ass and Worf gets mad about it bcuz he doesn't think the doctor deserves "such high an honor"

Can you elaborate on this masculinity isn’t a prison concept? In my experience as a cis man masculinity is just a violence men do to other men in order to try and limit the violence done to them by other men.

I was raised by a theatre guy so to me masculinity also includes putting on weird outfits and singing while doing a funny little dance. Open your horizons, dude. Do gender on purpose instead of just what your dad or the bullies at school told you to do. It’s beautiful in here.

so I’m about a third of the way into A Stitch In Time and I just have so many thoughts.

this is unexpectedly one of the most fascinating books I have ever read, because the circumstances of its existence (tie-in novel for established tv show, written by the actor, largely taken from his character-dev writing) create a novel that would’ve never existed otherwise.

in any other normal novel, the protagonist with a sad childhood who gets shipped off to train to be a weapon of the state, in a violent, loveless institution, would be… taking a stand against the status quo! that’s what protagonists do, they make unlikely friends and they stand up for what’s right and they change their world etc etc. yahoo. yay !

but as we good and goddamn know: garak’s not a protagonist

these flashback portions follow so many classic sf/f coming of age tropes of a young lad finding himself in a harsh new world, but instead of the main character being guided by a convenient moral compass and growing in defiance of the competitive, cruel environment– garak adapts, learns to outcompete his peers, learns to be crueler.

it’s not so much that you’re reading garak becoming worse (though he is, for sure)

it’s more that garak is drifting from being a mere product of his environment, to a perpetuator of it